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Zenthrose
Asked: 2015-02-21 18:22:24 +0800 CST

radio telescope programs

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I could not find one dealing with this. I was wondering if there is any radio telescope programs available for the Ubuntu 14.04, and if not how would I go about writing one? I am using a D.N. dish that is about 5-10yrs old, and planning to run it on a Toshiba Satalitte with an AMD E1 64bit system with Win8.1 with Ubuntu 14.04 running in a virtual machine.

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  1. I believe GCX is what you are looking for:

    GCX: Astronomical image processing and photometry

    Gcx is an astronomical image processing and data reduction tool, with an easy to use graphical user interface. It provides a complete set of data reduction functions for CCD photometry, with frame WCS fitting, automatic star identification, aperture photometry of target and standard stars, single-frame ensemble photometry solution finding, multi-frame color coefficient fitting, extinction coefficient fitting, and all-sky photometry; as well as general-purpose astronomical image processing functions (bias, dark, flat, frame alignment and stacking); It can function as a FITS viewer.

    The program can control CCD cameras and telescopes, and implement automatic observation scripting. Cameras are controlled through a hardware-specific server, to which gcx connects through a TCP socket. It generates FITS files with comprehensive header information.

    A list of possible candidates are on Ubuntu's website, oddly enough. Apparently this sort of thing is in demand!

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